On the syllabification of phonemes

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 308-316

  Bartlett, Susan ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Cherry, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; LINGUISTIC THEORY; STATE OF THE ART; WORD ACCURACIES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 83455225370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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